Entrepreneurship is a good thing, but a small thing. The real thing is having the right relationship with work because ‘work is life.’ If the right work happens as an employee — wonderful. As a partner — wonderful. And for the right work, if you have to start a concern, become an entrepreneur. But the objective must not be entrepreneurship; it must be right work.
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Questioner: Namaste sir. I'm Vijay Kumar, working here in the Computer Science Department. How can we motivate the younger generation students to become entrepreneurs?
Acharya Prashant: No, we have to address them where they are first. Where do they stand? Why doesn't something called entrepreneurship come naturally to them? If at all entrepreneurship is something so wonderful, what is it within them that takes them in whichever direction they currently go?
So, going by your question, I assume what you're saying is most of the students are content with and aim at just getting placed. Getting safe, secured, and fat jobs from the campus. Right? That's the point you're coming from. There are students who just want these things from life — comfort, safety, luxury, security. These are the things that students want. And as their teacher, you want them to be entrepreneurs.
What is it within the students that makes them want these things? Why do students take the direction they currently take? So, I'm a student, and I'm saying all I want from the campus is a fat job. That's what I came here for and paid the fees for. Right? What matters to me is the admissions office and then the placements office. And that's also the reason I could never be attentive in the classroom. Because all my thoughts were always centered on placements. Right?
